The Changeless Nature

112 The Changeless Nature263 The supreme of beings has beautiful eyeslike blue lotuses, and like an ox's are his eyelashes.With its immaculate white urna hair, his face is handsome to behold;his head bears a mound and his skin is pure, fine and golden.264 The hairs on his body are exceeding fine and soft,one from each and curling to the right and to the top.His hair is impeccable and like a deep-blue gem.As well-rounded as a perfect nyagrodha tree,265 the ever-good and incomparable great sage has the strengthof Narayana in his body firm. These two and thirty marks,vividly brilliant and beyond any concept's grasp,are by our teacher taught as those of a lord of men.266 Just as the form of the autumn moon in a cloudless skyis seen on the azure waters of a lake,so also are the all-embracing one's form kayasseen by all the victor's sons in the perfect buddha mandala.267 One should know that these sixty-four qualitiesand their respective causes here follow their orderin the ' J e w e l Discourse' — the Ratna Sutra.268 Being invulnerable, undisheartened, peerless and motionless,they are illustrated by the examples of a vajra,a lion, space and the clear moon in water.